neighbourhood in Almere
Olympiakwartier West (brt)
1,455 residents · postal code 1361 · Part of Olympiakwartier West, Almere
Everything for children close by, and little room
The railway station is two hundred metres away, the supermarket and the GP more than a kilometre. That reversed order is unusual and explains why amenities stays at a 7.5 here: the train only partly compensates for the distance to the daily shopping run.
Among residents almost a third are under fifteen and there are strikingly few older people — a markedly young neighbourhood, and that shows in the 9.3 for families. The 5.5 for safety does not come from the total number of offences, which sits on the national median. It comes from violence, which is clearly above it and counts heaviest within this pillar; vandalism and burglary stay on or below the median.
- no. 4,918 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 102 of 174 in Almere
How Olympiakwartier West (brt) scores
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Is Olympiakwartier West (brt) a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Olympiakwartier West (brt) comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 43 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Olympiakwartier West (brt) has strikingly many children under 15: 32%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1532%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4542%
NL median 22%
- 45–6514%
NL median 28%
- 65+4%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
55% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,757 — far more densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is Olympiakwartier West (brt) a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Olympiakwartier West (brt) comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Olympiakwartier West (brt)?
In Olympiakwartier West (brt) the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Olympiakwartier West (brt) calculated?
Olympiakwartier West (brt) scores 7.2 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Olympiakwartier West (brt) lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Almere
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Almere.
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